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Complete Singleness

Air Date:
January 20, 2018

Many people who find themselves still single at an age that they’d hoped to be married wonder what they’ve done wrong. Emerson Eggerichs says, “You are here because you made GOOD decisions…” Also hear from Gina Dalfonzo and Carolyn McCulley.

Carolyn McCulley

Carolyn McCulley is an author, speaker, and filmmaker. She has written three books —The Measure of Success, Radical Womanhood, and Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye? — and contributed to Sex and the Supremacy of Christ, edited by John Piper and Justin Taylor, and the forthcoming ESV Women's Devotional Bible. She has also written for numerous publications, including The Washington Post and Christianity Today, and her commentary has appeared on The Gospel Coalition, Desiring God, Boundless, True Wom …

Dr. Emerson Eggerichs

Dr. Emerson Eggerichs has an M.A. in communications from Wheaton College, a Master's of Divinity from Dubuque Seminary and a Ph.D. in child and family ecology from Michigan State University. His national bestseller, Love & Respect, has won the Gold Medallion and Book of the Year awards. He and his wife, Sarah, live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and have three adult children. He is also the president of Love and Respect Ministries.

Comments

Rachel

Thank you very much for this discussion today. It has given me a lot of peace. I am 30 and single, never married, and I have been feeling for a while as though I must have had a misstep(s) along the way because my prayers for a husband and a family have not yet been answered. It can be isolating to wait when no one in my circles has been single for this long, despite my efforts to stay connected to family and church family. It encourages me to be reminded that my good decisions have brought me here, and I am not less blessed to be single. God worked through your ministry as always – I sure needed to hear this message. Thank you again!

michelle

Rachel – Thank you for sharing this with us. It’s encouraging to me to hear you were encouraged in your singleness journey by what we shared on FamilyLife This Week. As Emmerson said, singleness brings in itself a certain kind/amount of suffering and pain. But it’s also in that space that we are refined for Him—and that’s a very good thing. You made no misstep, you are exactly where He wants you…I need to remind myself of that daily. Praying for you today. michelle hill, host of FamilyLife This Week.

Rachel

I appreciate your kind comment and prayers! It means a lot. I prayed for you as well. Thank you!